Monday, April 14, 2008 | 3:48 p.m.
The latest in local sports, most of which is true, the other of which may be a slight exaggeration of the truth.
The Mtn., the Mountain West Conference's regional TV network which you may or may not get (smart money is on "may not") sends out media advisories about programming specific to its member markets. These, like the network itself, are by and large are ignored. But I couldn't help but notice this week's programming note includes replays of the Rebels' 2006 football games against Air Force and Colorado State that will be shown on Thursday. The only problem? The Rebels lost 28-7 to the Rams that year. You know the program is on the downswing when a three-touchdown loss to a mediocre opponent is considered "classic football."
I saw this in the blog Joe Calzaghe -- he's the guy the Britons will be singing for against Bernard Hopkins at the Thomas & Mack Center Saturday night -- is writing for The Sunday Times of London:
The guy who owns the gym I’m working in is a top poker player and owns a blind dog that can do the Ali shuffle.
It's lines like that that make me proud to call Las Vegas home.
I don't know the name of the poker player. Calzaghe referred to him only as "Tony" which narrows it down to about 750 guys.
The goalie of the Stockton Thunder is named Tim Boron, number 30 in the program or "B" on a periodic table of the elements. After facing 133 Las Vegas Wranglers shots in the first three games of the ECHL playoffs, it's apparent the Thunder has too much "Pb" -- that's the symbol for lead, if you weren't paying attention in chemistry class -- on the blue line.
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